If you are expecting your good friends over for a night of movies and watching games such as basketball on TV, one of the great snacks to serve are chips, dips, beer or your friends’ (or your group’s) favorite drinks. And the best dip to enjoy your chips is none other than chili.
Buying ready-to-eat chili from the grocery and restaurants can have its perks but sometimes they are more expensive than what you would normally spend on a dip, especially a chili.
Chili is a rather easy dish to prepare on your own at the comforts of your own kitchen. Here’s a simple way on how to make homemade chili.
The ingredients that you will need are:
• 1 can of beans, kidney beans or your preferred type of beans
• 28 ounce of crushed tomatoes
• 1 can of tomato paste
• 1 pound of ground beef, or hamburger patties and shred them up
• green pepper
• onions
• 1 clove of garlic, minced
• 1 tablespoon of chili powder
• salt
• black pepper
• beef stock
• cooking oil
Making chili is very easy. Here are the steps you need to follow on how to make homemade chili.
1. Find a large skillet and add some cooking oil. You don’t need to fill the skillet with enough oil since the beef has natural oils. Put only an amount that is enough to sauté the onions and peppers.
2. Once the skillet and oil is hot enough, add the onions and peppers. Sauté until the onions turn into light brown color.
3. Add the ground beef or the shred up hamburger meat. Sauté it with the onions and peppers until it turns brown. Make sure that the meat are loosened up and browned evenly. If they are still in chunks, separate them using a spoon or a ladle. You can remove the extra fat and oil.
4. Once the beef is cooked, add the beans, tomato paste, crushed tomatoes. Mix and sauté until the tomato paste blends with the beef.
5. Add the chili powder. Normally one tablespoon is enough but you may add how much as you’d like, depending on how hot you can take your chili.
6. Add some beef stock and cover your skillet. Allow it to simmer for about 30 to 45 minutes. While it’s simmering, lift up the lid once in a while and stir your chili. Allow it to thicken.
7. Add some salt and black pepper to taste.
Some tips on how to make homemade chili.
• You can add other spices and chili like red or cayenne pepper to give your chili an extra pinch.
• The longer you let your chili simmer, the more flavor and yummy it will be!
• To add a more beef flavor, it is better to use beef stock than water.
That’s about it. You know how to make homemade chili that will surely be a hit to your friends! Before you know it your friends will be asking your recipe on how to make homemade chili.
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